After Midnight Necklace

Create a spooky piece as your Halloween treat with this necklace! The intricate pendant features a stoneware square pendant with a haunting owl and stitched seed bead borders for added effect. The yellow and dark blue color theme goes well with the moon and star designs in the lovely focal piece.

To Create the Pendant:

Step one: Fill the stringing hole of the dark blue with owl/moon stoneware Halloween square pendant with five minute two-part epoxy and let dry. Make sure your glue has left a smooth surface over the hole and has not recessed down into the hole. If this happens, fill the hole with more glue and let dry. Glue one Swarovski 5mm rivoli star flatback in Jet to the pendant to cover the hole. Attach another flatback star to the bottom left corner of the pendant. Use a jewel setter to help place your flatbacks in the right spot.

Step two: Glue the pendant to a piece of Lacy's Stiff Stuff. Leave yourself about one inch of extra Stiff Stuff along the edge. Allow glue to dry.

Step three Cut your white Nymo D bobbin to thread one short beading needle. Stitch a border around your stoneware pendant using Miyuki transparent silver-lined sapphire blue square cut beads. Thread the needle up through the Stiff Stuff, getting as close to the pendant as you can, string two beads on, and then back stitch your thread down through the Stiff Stuff. Continue this process until you make a complete border around the pendant. Repeat this same process using Miyuki transparent luster pale amber hex cut seed beads to create a border around your blue seed bead border. Trim any excess Stiff Stuff.

Step four: Glue the Nunn Design antique gold-plated pewter fern link to the Stiff Stuff so it rests just above the pendant. Cut a second piece of Stiff Stuff to match the size of your beaded pendant and adhere to your first piece so the fern link is held in place between the two. Stitch along the edge to secure your two pieces together.

To Create the Rest of the Necklace:

Step one: Cut three pieces of jewelry wire approximately 11 1/2 inches long. Attach one end of all three strands to a 5.5mm gold-plated 21 gauge open jump ring using 14K/20 gold-filled 2x2mm crimp tubes. For help with crimp tubes, visit our Handy Tip in the Learning Center on how to use a crimp tool. Attach your jump ring to the left side of the fern link. See our Handy Tip Video for help with jump rings. String each wire with the following beads, sticking close to this pattern but making each strand slightly different:

One to three Miyuki silver-lined sapphire square cut beads

One Miyuki pale amber hex cut seed bead

One or two square cut beads

One hex cut bead

One square cut bead

One Swarovski 4mm XILION bicone in Dark Sapphire

One square cut bead

Repeat until each strand is filled. Use a bead stopper to keep your strands tight.

Step two: Loosely braid your three strands together and then connect the loose ends to one jump ring using crimp tubes. Attach this jump ring to the loop portion of the JBB gold-plated pewter textured oval toggle.

Step three Repeat steps one and two on the right side of the fern link, substituting the bar portion of the toggle for the loop portion.